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- Comment on How long does it take for Jade Fragments to respawn? 5 days ago:
You might know this already, but if you run out on one character you can switch characters and get more again (up to that cap the other person mentioned). If you get the portal tome and put it in a shared inventory slot it makes it a breeze to switch.
- Comment on [Rant] Mount Balrior Raid Expert is the worst that could happen to raiding 2 weeks ago:
It’s the classic achievement trap. Any time you put achievements into a group space, it causes distortions to gameplay patterns as people try and get the achievement over the main objective of the encounter. This one sounds pretty bad, though. It definitely seems poorly thought out.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
Things like apkmirror are doing god’s work as far as I’m concerned. No problems with them at all.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
I was really shocked at the speed of it. Very surreal experience.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
Totally agreed on that. Sorry didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought someone might be interested to know about the automated stuff.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
Sounds believable. We definitely didn’t download it so I couldn’t say for sure.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).
- Comment on Gentlemen, it's with a great pleasure I inform you that Do Not Press The Button has hit 7000 wishlists 4 weeks ago:
As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That’s a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 1 month ago:
Oh I see. Sorry for the off-topic response then!
It’s a shame that multiplayer games really struggle with paid models these days. It heavily cut into a player base if things aren’t free to play. That kind of forces all but the biggest releases to turn to other monetization models in order to keep the base game free.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 1 month ago:
I think it’s tough with card games because they come from a physical form of lootboxes. Being expensive is kind of baked into their lineage. Collecting cards is a big part of the fun, and if you made it very easy to do I think it’s hard to say whether people would enjoy them as much.
I don’t play any collectible card games anymore because I don’t want to pay for it anymore, but there is something very entertaining about the model even if it’s easy to argue it’s a scummy business model by today’s standards.
I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?
I remember kind of disliking the arena system in hearthstone because I liked the game mode a lot, but as a casual player it was really hard to get to play it much. I guess they wanted to keep people from spending all their time there since you didn’t need to buy cards to play. I much preferred magic arena’s drafts where you pay an upfront cost but get to keep all the cards you played with. Much more accessible for casual players and more satisfying, too, since you always get something out of it.
- Comment on Calculatable 1 month ago:
You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good 1 month ago:
This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don’t acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer’s throat for the take I imagine.
It’s icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn’t use. That makes it seem like they didn’t even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤
- Comment on Seeking input on .io ccTLD removal 1 month ago:
Programmers in shambles
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Congrats on the release!
- Comment on Yeah but the one accessory she usually removed was the little swastika pin. 1 month ago:
One per email is all you get!
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 1 month ago:
My god they’re hideous!
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 1 month ago:
There’s a sort of… Sheen, to a lot AI images. Obviously you can prompt this away if you know what you’re doing, but its developing a bit of a look to my eye when people don’t do that.
- Comment on Castlevania to get official stage adaptation by Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue 1 month ago:
Can’t wait to see the third act where alucard gets stun locked by gold Medusa heads in the clocktower
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 1 month ago:
tap a face to tag
- Comment on Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games 1 month ago:
Same
- Comment on Monke 1 month ago:
What kind of dog is that?
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
Wait, are you telling me marvel isn’t thought through all the way?
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
It has a long way to go but it’s a good start. The community is very homogenous right now (maybe excluding some of the mainly politically focused servers). It’s predominantly male tech people right now and it shows in what is active and the general vibes of discussions. My hope is not only for more niche communities to grow, but also for a lot more diversity of interests and of people in general. We need more women’s voices on here for sure. I miss that diversity from reddit. Things have been steadily, if slowly, growing so far from what I can tell, so hopefully over time all this will improve.
- Comment on The internet, every October 2 months ago:
North A-scare-ica (I’m sorry)
- Comment on This could be us 2 months ago:
Wow, those were some impressive effects!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They’re tribalists, not idealists. In other words, it’s on their side now so they don’t mind. I see a lot of people always attacking the double standard aspect, but its not the point. They don’t mind double standards, they just want their tribe to win.
- Comment on Unity Cutting About 1,800 People In Company's Largest Layoff 2 months ago:
And by core business they mean their ad platform presumably.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 2 months ago:
Context: I like immersion and getting the most out of a game’s systems.
I see someone said the opposite, but I’d recommend playing the one difficulty above normal. If you don’t you’ll barely ever need to interact with some parts of the game like the alchemy system.
Also the game lets you heavily customize the interface. I personally hate being led around by a dotted line/arrow, so if you feel the same know you can turn all of that off.
- Comment on Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? 2 months ago:
Its pretty crazy. I was very taken aback by the email. Dev accounts aren’t even free.
- Comment on Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? 2 months ago:
I see a lot of the other reasons mentioned, but one I don’t: on android you are required to release updates at least every year-ish or they will completely delete your developer account and app.
Source: got that message recently for an app I made and haven’t had a reason to update.